"Cut your coat according to your cloth" nghĩa là gì?

May kiểu này có lạ quá không? Photo courtesy: rubengutierrez49

"Cut your coat according to your cloth" = may áo phải canh vải -> nghĩa là nên đảm nhận công việc mà ta có khả năng và tiền bạc để thực hiện; "liệu cơm gắp mắm".

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Of course, we'd love a luxurious car, but you have to cut your coat according to your cloth.

This six-bedroom Georgian mansion (biệt thự) was once owned – and refurbished (tân trang) – by British designer Karen Millen. If you’re interested be sure you can cut your coat according to your cloth as it’s on sale for just under a fashionable 1.5 million.

“Even in the wake of increased taxation, the government’s liquidity (khả năng thanh toán bằng tiền mặt) position has not improved due to failure to limit excessive fiscal spending (chi tiêu tài khóa quá mức),” Chizonde noted. “The need to ‘cut your coat according to your cloth’ is much needed advice for the current situation. Government should do as much as they can to work with what is available.”

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